“…the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind, and
said: (Job 38:1; New King James Version, (NKJV), “Where were you when I laid the foundations of the
earth? Tell Me, if you have understanding. Who determined its
measurements? Surely you know! Or who stretched the line upon it? To what were its foundations fastened? Or who laid its cornerstone, When the morning
stars sang together, And all the sons of God shouted for joy? Or
who shut in the sea with doors,
When it burst forth and issued
from the womb; When I made the clouds its garment,
And thick darkness its swaddling band; When I fixed My limit for it, And set bars and doors; When I said,‘This far you may come, but no farther, And here your proud waves must stop!’ (Job 38: 4-11; (NKJV). “When I
consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, The moon and the stars,
which You have ordained, What is man that You are mindful of him, And the son of man that You
visit him? For You have made him a little lower than the angels, And You have crowned him with glory and honor. You have made him to have dominion over the
works of Your hands; You have put all things
under his feet, All sheep and oxen—Even
the beasts of the field, The birds of the air, And the fish of the sea That pass through the paths of the seas. O Lord, our Lord,
How excellent is
Your name in all the earth!” (Psalm 8:3-9;
NKJV). Growing up in
the northern part of the USA, I spent many starry nights gazing up at the
heavens. Back then, there weren’t so
many bright, city lights to block out the gorgeous views of the night sky; so
even the Northern Lights were allowed to put on quite a show. As a child, I was somehow always called by the
night sky. Sometimes, I sat outside by
myself, studying the constellations and phases of the moon; other times, my dad
sat outside with me, telling me facts about the celestial bodies and the
constellation patterns. Now, having
lived many years in the central mid-west, I miss those days of my youth and the
simplicity of that phenomenal time when I had felt a connection with the
beautiful night skies. In those days, even
the moon seemed to shine in high definition.
Particularly, I remember how clearly on a black, northern night that same
‘face’ appeared in the fullness of the moon.
As a child, I
learned that the reason the man-in-the-moon always looks the same is because
the moon really shines by the reflected
light of the sun bouncing off the moon’s surface. From our perspective here on earth, we see
only one side of the moon, while the back side stays dark. Viewed from somewhere else in space, the full-moon
‘face’ would look differently; but the moon doesn’t rotate, so we always see
the same side of it, as well as the various crescent stages of the sun’s reflection
on the moon’s surface. The stages and
movements of the moon creates a pattern of stability that earth’s citizens can
depend upon for navigation. It also
governs the earth’s tides and brightens the world with a soft light for
sleeping patterns. In many ways,
watching the heavens is a school all in itself.
As life and populations change on Earth, so do our relationships to the
celestial bodies that fill our skies. But
city lights now dim the thousands of stars that dot the night sky; so, it’s no
wonder we don’t relate to the sky in the same way we did some decades ago, when
less technology ruled our world. Current satellite photos show that, viewed from
space, our planet is lit up like a Christmas tree from all the glowing lights
of its cities. Only a few locations on
Earth, out away from the heavily-lit population centers, still view the many
stars and planets that fill the night skies. Yet, what we do still observe from the sky around our
tiny planet is the tremendous, intricate, functioning patterns that
exist throughout our universe and beyond.
The complicated, reliable functioning of all the suns, planets, stars,
universes, (which we perceive on the external, material level of perception)
reveals the handiwork of an Intelligence beyond earthly comprehension. Nothing comes from nothing. Intelligent purpose creates the harmonic
functioning of all that we know. An
infinite Mind, we don’t yet comprehend, smiles beneath the surface of all that
we perceive. And one thing
is sure: even when we perceive on the material level that a greater, harmonious Intelligence is at work,
even then we don’t fathom the greater reality that meets us every day. Only in tiny moments, when we experience a
sense of something wonderful flitting across our thoughts, calling for our
awareness, do we catch a glimpse of eternity that exists beneath the physical
façade of time, space, and substance. This reality can only be perceived when
the finite, physical sense of materiality as substance is silenced. Spiritual reality exists with only spiritual substance. God, divine Spirit, created only a spiritual
creation, filled with spiritual beings.
Like produces like. Spiritual
being is our substance, and our true body, mind and soul. Material being is a collective, material
illusion. Knowing this
meta-physical fact, however, still fails to permeate the collective consciousness of our world. Spiritual occurrences and spiritual abilities
are still perceived as things beyond the norm. The biblical
story of the star of Bethlehem (where
a star led three priests and kings to
the tiny spot on Earth where Jesus was born) illustrates a moment in time when
humanity’s attention was drawn to that unexplainable phenomenon of a bright
star in the sky above our own little planet, that shouldn’t have been there in
the normal sky. Many (seemingly)
super-natural events are also recorded in the Old Testament book of Exodus
during Moses’s trek leading the children of Israel out of Egypt’s
captivity. And although these events
were deemed to be super-natural, (such as the parting of the Red Sea) yet
perhaps to our greater, more spiritual perspective, they were divinely natural. It
begs the question: Were these
occurrences divinely natural to
anyone who comprehended the spiritual reality of things? We really must
take into account that we currently live in a cosmic neighborhood, with solar
systems, galaxies, even other universes.
And although our material senses of perception define our reality on a
material-substance level, many religions around the world believe that, at some
point, we must also recognize an underlying spiritual, or non-physical level,
of existence. Why? Because it creeps into our daily lives, now
and then, when we least expect it. Even to open
our mental eyes and minds wider, we see that we aren’t simply living in Earth-time;
rather, we live in the celestial time
of God’s greater creation. Our own
planet is just a tiny speck that is affected by tides from the moon and weather
patterns affected by the sun. Our
planet’s orbit is ruled by seasonal times that involve the solar system. Every trip around the Sun actually creates a
“new” orbit or revolving path around the Sun.
Weather patterns are affected by what’s “out there” in the vastness of
space and the movements of our neighbors in our solar system, way more than we
realize. Yet, we build
our lives strictly around narrow belief-systems of material cause and effect,
alone; and even then, rarely do we look outside our tiny planet to take into
account the fact that we’re only a speck in the vastness of creation. We really must begin to realize that we are a
part of something, and somewhere, beyond our own back yards. Most of the things we are taught to believe
come from myths of the ancients. So,
with such a narrow view of reality, we are shutting out the spiritual side of
things that is actually ‘driving the whole wagon’, so to speak. Here is an
example of what I’m saying: Many people
around the world have experiences, which are called ‘precognition’…perceiving
some event that has not yet occurred, but our mind’s-eye sees it like a picture. Even in the time of Noah (and the great,
global flood) stories abounded about individuals around the planet who, at the
time, had mental precognition about a great flood coming. (Some Native Americans have various versions
of this that is known to many tribes.)
Around the globe, peoples’ lives were saved from the mental warnings
that came to them to prepare, in some way.
As a result, people from various locations around the globe made it
through the flood, because they were fore-warned in thought. (Google for info
on this, if you doubt it.) Now, I presume
that, in Noah’s time, some took the warning seriously, and others didn’t. But the divine Intelligence is connected to
us all, so in this day and age, this phenomenon shouldn’t surprise us. And actually, isn’t that proof that the
divine Intelligence we call God IS
connected to all of us? And couldn’t
this universal connection be the reason those who heeded the mental warnings
survived that global disaster at the time? God’s creation
is beyond what mankind perceives it to be.
It is greater, wider, and deeper.
At our very core, we are spiritual (not physical) beings. And we must get this into our memory
banks. As individuals awaken into
clearer pictures of spiritual reality, including our own, true identities, we
will begin to leave behind the limited, material sense of everything that we
have clung to for so long. Until then, we
will tend to keep what we have learned as children, and we will still wrap
ourselves in all its ignorance because we were all taught to do so, in every
human civilization on Earth. And
this mythical knowledge is what keeps us spiritually
blind to the infinite glory of our own existence in the kingdom of
God. We are like
Dorothy in the Land of OZ (my favorite reference). We are sleeping in the collective dream of
finite materiality. It is a walking,
waking dream; but it is a mental illusion,
just the same. Yet, the way back to our
awakened state of being is always with us.
For just as Dorothy didn’t have to GO anywhere to find here home,
(awaken) we don’t actually have to GO anywhere to get Home either. We only have to awaken to our spiritual
identity (the universal Christ identity) enough to begin to remember it. For our remembrance is in our deeper,
spiritual consciousness…our Christ Consciousness. The universal Christ-Consciousness
represents what Paul the Apostle referred to when he wrote: “Let this mind be in you, which was also in
Christ Jesus.” (Philippians 2:5; (KJV). Christ Jesus was many things to his followers,
and one of them is that he’s our spiritual brother, showing us our true
identities as immortal children of God, not finite mankind. Jesus (the physical man) came to demonstrate,
or show us, the Christ of us—our spiritual identities. The Christ is a universal reference to all
humankind. In the ascension, Jesus the
man transformed into his Christly identity, and as St. Paul said (in 2nd
Corinthians 5:16-17, KJV): “Wherefore henceforth
know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the
flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more.
Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are
passed away; behold, all things are become new.” When we go mentally
inward and speak with the Christ Consciousness (our link to God that is within
each of us), it mentally tells us what we need to know; and this spiritual
consciousness within us awakens and reveals the Truth of whatever perplexes
us. It guides us on how to do whatever
is needed, to correct whatever is humanly wrong with our lives, on this
human-experience level. When led by the
universal Christ Consciousness (our higher Self within) our human troubles
become untangled and healed. And
although the healings may seem unnatural or deemed ‘a miracle’, we have simply
opened the door to the kingdom of God, invisibly present all the time, where no
darkness or lack of any good thing may reside.
For all good things are created and maintained eternally in divine
Spirit’s creation. |
